11.   In any case, the herders are pastoralists whose culture is based on their cattle, and they are resisting efforts to cull their herds.

12.   On Saturday orange-jacketed hunters will swarm to the region to cull the herd.

13.   Only recently have cattlemen and pork producers begun to cut costs by culling their herds.

14.   The government has not yet begun a secondary program to cull herds most afflicted with mad-cow disease.

15.   The Rwandan government has begun a campaign to convince the pastoralists to cull their herds in exchange for promises of larger plots of land.

16.   The sharpshooters hired to cull the herd employ expensive night-vision optics, low-velocity ammunition and silencers.

17.   Then, as the deer follow a culinary trail of apple trees, tomato plants and azaleas, mountain lions follow along, waiting to cull the herd.

18.   Among the ideas under consideration are allowing hunting to cull wildlife herds and making it easier to get licenses for tourism businesses.

19.   One choice is to cull the herd, killing some each year.

20.   Ranchers are culling their herds by selling calves to market early.